Leaky Ducts

February 21, 2019

Ductwork is a hidden element that is crucial to your indoor air quality. Ductwork is the system by which warm or cool air circulates throughout your home. It is essential to have well maintained and cared for ductwork in your home.

Most of it is hidden behind walls or in places that are not a frequently used as other areas of your home. Often it is in the attic, and for most of us ductwork can fall into the “out of sight, out of mind” category. This can cost you money, compromise your indoor comfort and even effect your health.

Why do I need to maintain my ductwork?

Poorly maintained and leaky ductwork can cause the following problems:

It will raise your heating and cooling bills.

Effect the indoor comfort of your home.

Can affect your health negatively.

Leaks in your ducts can occur where the ducts are joined together. Leaked air is wasted air. Your furnace or air conditioner has used energy, that you pay for, to heat or cool the air. When that air doesn’t make it to the desired locations in your home, your HVAC unit has to work twice as hard to make up for the temperature lost, it is essentially like throwing money away.

Leaky ducts, leak money.

Leaks can also cause undesired things from the air to leak INTO your duct system. This means contaminants like exhaust, fumes, carbon monoxide or many other pollutants, can enter your duct system and circulate around your home without you knowing it. This can cause a myriad of problems including causing respiratory problems or exacerbating problems that you may already have, such as asthma or allergies.

To diagnose and correct your leaky duct problem is a simple process that will greatly improve the comfort and health of your home. Our Western Sales and Services technicians are experts at correcting your leaky duct system.

We offer the breakthrough technology of Aeroseal for duct sealing. We seal your ducts from the inside and can remedy areas that traditional mastic sealing processes don’t always fix. The Aeroseal process puts escaping air under pressure and causes polymer particles to bond to each other until the leak is closed. You will get immediate energy savings in home comfort improvement.